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Birthday September 14, 1917

• The temperature on September 14, 1917 was between 9.4 °C and 17.4 °C and averaged 13.6 °C. There was 0.1 mm of rain. There was 7.2 hours of sunshine (56%). The average windspeed was 4 Bft (moderate breeze) and was prevailing from the west-northwest. Source: KNMI
• Koningin Wilhelmina (Huis van Oranje-Nassau) was from 1890 till 1948 sovereign of the Netherlands (also known as Koninkrijk der Nederlanden)
• In The Netherlands , there was from August 29, 1913 to September 9, 1918 the cabinet Cort van der Linden, with Mr. P.W.A. Cort van der Linden (liberaal) as prime minister.
• In the year 1917: Source: Wikipedia
  • The Netherlands had about 6.5 million citizens.
  • January 17 » The United States pays Denmark $25 million for the Virgin Islands.
  • March 26 » World War I: First Battle of Gaza: British troops are halted after 17,000 Turks block their advance.
  • May 21 » The Imperial War Graves Commission is established through royal charter to mark, record, and maintain the graves and places of commemoration of the British Empire's military forces.
  • August 6 » World War I: Battle of Mărășești between the Romanian and German armies begins.
  • November 24 » In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001.
  • December 15 » World War I: An armistice between Russia and the Central Powers is signed.

Source: Wikipedia

• 1915 » John Dobson, Chinese-American astronomer and author, designed the Dobsonian telescope († 2014)
• 1916 » Eric Bentley, English-American singer, playwright, and critic
• 1916 » John Heyer, Australian director and producer († 2001)
• 1917 » Rudolf Baumgartner, Swiss violinist and conductor († 2002)
• 1918 » Cachao López, Cuban-American bassist and composer († 2008)
• 1918 » Georges Berger, Belgian race car driver († 1967)